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210 DIVINATION & AUGURY IN A MODERN LIGHT
Under this heading may be classed prophecy by dreams, and impressions by the choosing or cutting of cards, the picking of petaled flowers. A fourth-class my be made of divination by human beings in abnormal states--in fire, in frenzy, in hynotic trance, ecstacy states of clairvoyance, clairaudience, in lunacy, madness, epilepsy, in giddiness--as whirling dervishes--in fasting and being drugged. In the fifth-class we may place the records of omens, taken from the great operation of Nature-such as the movements of clouds, the weather, ligbtning and thunder, earthquakes, darkness, plagues or divine appearances, divine voices, necromancy and ghostly apparitions, fairies and elementaries. As a last class, there wiil remain the augusies which depend on the assumption that there is a fixed destiny, and that. this destiny can be interpreted by certain signs, such as the marks of the hand and forehead, and the movements of the plants as in Palmistry, Natural and Political Astrology. In the domain of the unknown, the abnormal, the miraculous, the divine, the transcendental the mystical, the supernatural, the psychical, spiritual, various groups of the modern students are now hard at work investigating, end we must note the special stand points of these various groups,
To begin with-there is the school of Modern Mental Science, as recognized by European Universities and Learned Societies, of which School, Carpenter, Bain and Ferrier are examples. Of these, there two divisions, these getting at limits of conciousness by anatomy of the
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